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A Brief History of Paris
- By: Cecil Jenkins
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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Paris—city of love, food, culture—is steeped in a rich history known the world over. From the creative minds of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who both frequented the world-famous Moulin Rouge at the turn of the twentieth century, to the many historic changes that saw Paris expand into the city of twenty arrondissements that residents and tourists flock to every year. In A Brief History of Paris, historian Cecil Black entertainingly details the stories behind the culture, locations, architecture, people, food and more that keeps visitors enchanted.
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A comprehensive overview of the origins and development of Paris
- By ModernEfficientDesign on 19-11-23
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A Brief History of Paris
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 10-11-22
- Language: English
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The Time Bubble
- By: Jason Ayres
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The Time Bubble is the only podcast where the guests get to travel in time! If you could live any three days of your life over again, which would you choose? If you could be anyone else for a day, past or present, who would it be? And if you could go anywhere in space and time, where would you go?
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Mirror to Damascus
- By: Colin Thubron
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', Mirror to Damascus provides an enthralling and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966, as well as being a charming and witty personal record of a city well-loved. In explaining how modern Damascus is rooted in immemorial layers of culture and tradition, Colin Thubron explores the historical, artistic, social and religious inheritance of the Damascenes in an amusing and perceptive manner.
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Decent
- By Alex on 12-12-17
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Mirror to Damascus
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-09-17
- Language: English
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Race to the Pole
- By: James Cracknell, Ben Fogle
- Narrated by: James Cracknell, Ben Fogle
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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New Year's Day, 2009. Somewhere on the bottom of the world, six teams of adventurers and explorers have gathered to race one another, on foot, to the South Pole. It is the first time that anyone has undertaken such a race in almost a hundred years; the first time since the great Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, beat Captain Scott to the same goal in 1911.
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Epic tale of adventure
- By G. Davidson on 07-07-14
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Race to the Pole
- Narrated by: James Cracknell, Ben Fogle
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 09-06-09
- Language: English
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Parisians
- By: Graham Robb
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
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No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Robb's Parisians is at once an audiobook to lose yourself in, to dip in and out of at leisure, and to return to again and again - rather like the city itself, in fact.
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Parisians
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 27-02-18
- Language: English
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Head Over Heel
- By: Chris Harrison
- Narrated by: Stan Pretty
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
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On a trip to Dublin, Chris Harrison falls head over heels in love with Daniela, an Italian girl with eyes the colour of Guinness - and he follows her home. He abandons his previous life for LA DOLCE VITA, with its luscious foods and sun-drenched vistas. Among olive groves and cobblestone lanes, Chris takes us on a moving, insightful and often hilarious journey into the heart of southern Italy...
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Head Over Heel
- Narrated by: Stan Pretty
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 08-04-11
- Language: English
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Storm’s Edge
- Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney
- By: Peter Marshall
- Narrated by: Kenny Blyth
- Length: 22 hrs and 44 mins
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Peter Marshall was born in Orkney. His ancestors were farmers and farm labourers on the northern island of Sanday – where, in 1624, one of them was murdered by a witch. In an expansive and enthralling historical account, Marshall looks afresh at a small group of islands that has been treated as a mere footnote, remote and peripheral, and in doing so invites us to think differently about key events of British history.
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A complex story worth telling and well told
- By Travelling Girl on 27-08-24
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Storm’s Edge
- Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney
- Narrated by: Kenny Blyth
- Length: 22 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 11-04-24
- Language: English
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A Thing of Beauty
- By: Peter Fiennes
- Narrated by: Peter Fiennes
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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It’s now a golden age for these tales - they crop up in novels, films and popular culture. But what’s the modern relevance of Theseus, Hera and Pandora? Were these stories ever meant for children? And what’s to be seen now at the places where heroes fought and gods once quarrelled? Peter Fiennes travels to the sites of some of the most famous Greek myths, on the trail of hope, beauty and a new way of seeing what we have done to our world.
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A real thing of beauty!
- By John M on 12-11-23
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A Thing of Beauty
- Narrated by: Peter Fiennes
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 17-02-22
- Language: English
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Tuk-Tuk for Two
- Two Strangers, One Unforgettable Race Through India in a Tuk-Tuk Named Winnie (Weird Travel Series, Book 3)
- By: Adam Fletcher
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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Driving terrified me; I hadn't done it in a decade. But if I could drive in India, I could drive anywhere. If I drive a tuk-tuk, I could drive anything. And if I said yes, I'd get to spend 10 days with her. Would that be enough time to find out who she was, what she wanted, and then convince her to abandon that and want me instead? There was only one way to find out.
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Really boring non story
- By Mrs. F. Mckervey on 16-04-24
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Tuk-Tuk for Two
- Two Strangers, One Unforgettable Race Through India in a Tuk-Tuk Named Winnie (Weird Travel Series, Book 3)
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Series: Weird Travel Series, Book 3
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 23-02-21
- Language: English
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
- By: Complexly John Green
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The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. On The Anthropocene Reviewed, #1 New York Times bestselling author John Green (The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down) reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including On the Media, Snap Judgment, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy and Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin. © WNYC Studios
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I'm having such a good time
- By Nicole Louise on 29-06-24
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Pathless Forest
- The Quest to Save the World’s Largest Flowers
- By: Dr Chris Thorogood
- Narrated by: Sebastian Humphreys
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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As a child, Chris Thorogood dreamed of seeing Rafflesia - the plant with the world's largest flowers. Today he is a botanist at the University of Oxford's Botanic Garden and has dedicated his life to studying the biology of such extraordinary plants, working alongside botanists and foresters in Southeast Asia to document these huge, mysterious blooms. Pathless Forest is the story of his journey to study and protect this remarkable plant - a biological enigma, still little understood, which invades vines as a leafless parasite and steals its food from them.
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Pathless Forest
- The Quest to Save the World’s Largest Flowers
- Narrated by: Sebastian Humphreys
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-03-24
- Language: English
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Mud, Sweat and Gears: Cycling From Land's End to John O'Groats (via the Pub)
- By: Ellie Bennett
- Narrated by: Nicola MacKenzie
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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As Ellie’s 50th birthday approaches and her ambitions of a steady income, a successful career and an ascent of Everest seem as far away as ever, she begins to doubt she’s capable of achieving anything at all. So when her best friend Mick suggests a gruelling cycle ride from Land’s End to John o’Groats, she takes up the challenge. They opt for the scenic route which takes them along cycle paths, towpaths and the back roads and byways of Britain, unable to resist sampling beers in the pubs they pass along the way.
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Cyclist or listener - who became more weary?
- By christine on 11-11-12
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Mud, Sweat and Gears: Cycling From Land's End to John O'Groats (via the Pub)
- Narrated by: Nicola MacKenzie
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 27-09-12
- Language: English
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Long Way Down
- By: Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman
- Narrated by: Mark Bonnar, Rupert Degas
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. Inspired by their UNICEF visits to Africa, they knew they had to go back and experience this extraordinary continent in more depth.
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A light boys book - but an annoying voice
- By Stephen on 06-06-08
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Long Way Down
- Narrated by: Mark Bonnar, Rupert Degas
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-11-07
- Language: English
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A Chip Shop in Poznań
- My Unlikely Year in Poland
- By: Ben Aitken
- Narrated by: Will M. Watt
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Not many Brits move to Poland to work in a fish and chip shop. Fewer still come back wanting to be a Member of the European Parliament. In 2016, Ben Aitken moved to Poland while he still could. It wasn’t love that took him but curiosity: he wanted to know what the Poles in the UK had left behind. He flew to a place he’d never heard of and then accepted a job in a chip shop on the minimum wage. When he wasn’t peeling potatoes he was on the road scratching the country’s surface.
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Unnecessary and upsetting chapter 18
- By Peter on 06-05-21
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A Chip Shop in Poznań
- My Unlikely Year in Poland
- Narrated by: Will M. Watt
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 12-11-19
- Language: English
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That Tracks Podcast With Tim and Nick
- By: Tim & Nick
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That Tracks Podcast was born out of a bond that two dads formed in being fathers, traveling with their families, and discussing theme parks. Both Nick and Tim live in Central Florida and are surrounded by some of the most iconic theme parks in the world! Tim, aka @thetimtracker, is a YouTube vlogger and Nick, @thethemeparkdad, has his own social media channels. We both cover theme parks and travel through our channels, with a whole lot of influence of our lives in being fathers. This podcast has been designed to discuss all of that. From silly and inspiring moments of fatherhood, to theme park...
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My Own Magic
- A Reappearing Act
- By: Anna Kloots
- Narrated by: Anna Kloots
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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Despite what appeared to be a glamorous existence full of globetrotting adventures, behind the scenes, Anna felt invisible in her own life. Consumed by a marriage that left no space for her own desires and creativity, she chose to reframe the failure of her marriage as an opportunity to begin again.
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Fantastic.
- By Ana Filipa Vieira Braz on 06-08-24
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My Own Magic
- A Reappearing Act
- Narrated by: Anna Kloots
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 16-05-23
- Language: English
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Slow Trains to Venice
- A Love Letter to Europe
- By: Tom Chesshyre
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Escaping the rat race for a few happy weeks, Tom Chesshyre indulges in the freedom of the tracks. From France (dogged by rail worker strikes) through Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Poland he goes, travelling as far east as Odessa by the Black Sea in Ukraine. With no set plans, simply a desire to let the trains lead the way, his trip takes him onwards via Hungary, the Balkans and Austria. Along the way he enjoys many an encounter, befriending fellow travellers as well as a conductor or two. This is a love letter to Europe, written from the trackside.
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No Paul Theroux
- By tom on 05-01-20
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Slow Trains to Venice
- A Love Letter to Europe
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 01-01-20
- Language: English
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Bothy
- In Search of Simple Shelter
- By: Kat Hill
- Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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You will find a bothy in the mountains or the wilderness, remote huts you can’t reserve, usually without electricity or other mod-cons, running water or a marker on the map. And it’s there that you’ll meet Kat Hill – kettle on, feet up and pen out. Leading us on a gorgeous journey around the UK, Kat reveals the history of these wild mountain shelters and the people who visit them. With an historian’s insight and a rambler’s imagination, Kat lends fresh consideration to the concepts of nature, wilderness and escape.
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Deep, meaningful research and beautiful clear writing
- By Laura on 02-07-24
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Bothy
- In Search of Simple Shelter
- Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 09-05-24
- Language: English
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The Masked Rider
- Cycling in West Africa
- By: Neil Peart
- Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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The prolific drummer for the rock band Rush travels through African villages, both large and small, and relates his story through journal entries and tales of adventure, while simultaneously addressing issues such as differences in culture, psychology, and labels. Literary and artistic sidekicks such as Aristotle, Dante, and Van Gogh join Peart and his cycling companions, reminding the listener that this is not just another travel book - it is a story of both external and introspective discovery and adventure.
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neither pleasant story, narrator nor reader
- By ahala on 09-11-21
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The Masked Rider
- Cycling in West Africa
- Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 07-05-13
- Language: English
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Rebus's Scotland
- A Personal Journey
- By: Ian Rankin, Ross Gillespie, Tricia Malley
- Narrated by: Ian Rankin, James Macpherson
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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In Rebus's Scotland Ian Rankin uncovers the Scotland that the tourist never sees, highlighting the places that inspired the settings for the Inspector Rebus novels. Rankin also reveals the story of Rebus and how he came into being, who he is, and what his - and Rankin's - Scotland is like.
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Rebus's Scotland
- A Personal Journey
- Narrated by: Ian Rankin, James Macpherson
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 13-10-14
- Language: English
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